Honorary Research Fellow @DMUhistory; 2023-25 Visiting Research Prof at NYU; Author & Historian. GJFootballArchive.com
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25 Jul 2025
Great to see the poster for our free event on women’s football up at @hbpicturehouse (Below Jaws 50). It’s on 2 August and details here: hebdenbridgepicturehouse.co.… Come and join us for what promises to be a wonderful event.
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Walter has also got a recent book out with @softwoodbooks, which is available to buy on Amazon and is about Walter’s life in and around football, with Walter’s huge love for Newport Pagnell
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One of our most chaotic annual Team Photos so I’ve posted a few options. Hopefully all those who attended day one of #footycon26 will see themselves here.
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I’ll post more after a few days’ rest but it’s been a busy few days as one of the organisers of #footycon26 where I also did a presentation on Pickles. The new display in #Croydon I’ve helped research and write was put up a few days ago too. If you’re in Croydon look out for it.
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But we finish day 1 with back to back panels and our first panel with Franzsika Blendin, @SaschaDueerkop, Adam Beaumont & Candice Whittell discussing the footballs forgotten heroines project looking at cases in Hawaii, Jamaica & Iceland. A global exploration of the beautiful game
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Softwood author, Walter Hunt presents his paper at this weekend's International Football History Conference @FootyCon
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@FootyCon if any delegates who enjoyed the reading yesterday want a Father’s Day gift for the football mad dad in your life… you can buy a copy on ebay.us/m/jxDqgd and I’ll dedicate/ sign and send in time for next Sunday…
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All the action from this year's Footycon at Fulham Pier
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We finish the conference with two short presentations by 2/3 of our organising committee as Max Portman (@WestHamSyndrome) & Gary James (@GaryJamesWriter) talk about I’m forever blowing bubbles and Pickles the dog
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After lunch and a brief excursion across to the Press conference room, we’re back with @MarkAOrton talking to @GaryJamesWriter about football and how the Yugoslav wars keep shaping international football
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2/2 The International Football History Conference is open to all football codes. Soccer tends to dominate but we welcome other forms of football so maybe submit your topic for next year’s conference? #Footycon26
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Three years ago today… (follow the link for an article remembering that special night in Istanbul): gjfootballarchive.com/2026/0…
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Pulling together paperwork for this week’s #footycon26 conference and found the printed programme from the first conference #footycon17 Great to see that there’ll be several delegates who were present at the first here at the latest.
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1/2 I've not had chance to talk about this yet but a book I co-edited with @FionaSkillen & @HBee2015 on the history of women's football in Britain and Ireland. To gain international recognition at a major sports history conference in North America is some achievement. Thanks to-
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2/2 - all those who contributed chapters to the book and thanks to NASSH and the awards committee for this recognition. It truly is remarkable. Thanks.
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Looking forward to this year's International Football History Conference #Footycon26 at @FulhamFC Here are photos of the schedule showing presenters, topics etc. We've a wonderful array of topics at this sell-out conference. If you're missing out this year look out -
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- for #Footycon27 (our tenth anniversary!) in 2027. Details for that should be announced in September.
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Good work here. Modern day revisionism tends to forget how extraordinarily expensive some of these players were in their era. Buying success (and buying failure) has been around for a long time.
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Who would be the most expensive player in Premier League history adjusting for football inflation (increase in total revenue for the PL per season)? It has to be the greatest goalscorer...the one and only @alanshearer at an inflation adjusted £223.3m when signing for Newcastle. He also appears at £100.2m when signing for Blackburn. @rioferdy5 appears twice in the top dozen signings
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What should women’s football do better next season? ⚽
Share your views in @BarclaysWSL's End of Season Fan Survey! 🗣️ mancity.co/WSL-Survey
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